Free Image Hosting

Free image hosting is an extremely useful service offered by many websites, allowing their users to upload images which are then hosted on that site so they can be used elsewhere. There a number of websites offering this service that are used by millions of people every day.

Most free image hosting websites will allow their users a limited amount of bandwidth, typically around a gigabyte and limit the size of images that can be uploaded. People who wish to host very large, or a high number of images are unlikely to have much luck using a free image hosting website. However many of the sites offering free image hosting also have premium services available for a monthly subscription fee. Paying for a premium service will allow the user access to features unavailable with the standard free image hosting service, such as an increase in space and the size of images that can be uploaded.

Photo-sharing is one of the most popular applications of free image hosting services, as it allows people to upload photographs into galleries which can then be viewed publically, or the user can choose who is allowed to view them. Using free image hosting in this way makes it easier for groups of friends to share their photographs, as the large file size of images often makes emailing them difficult.

Some free image hosting sites also allow their users to order prints of their photographs. Many websites that specialise in photo printing will offer a free image hosting service for this reason.